It's fine for clubs to move on and change personnel - happens all the time but how about a bit of appreciation for the man that's gone before?

Would that be too much to ask?

To say thank you and good luck costs nothing and says more about a club than millions ever could.

Nigel Adkins was considered to have turned the club around

Southampton missed a trick last night and it was noticed.

New man Mauricio Pochettino made a low key entrance but if you read the programme it was as if Nigel Adkins had been air brushed out of their history.

There was no thanks for his good work in getting back to back promotions, moving them up 51 places in the league and getting them back into the top flight plus turning things around after a shaky start. It was as if he'd never been there.

Well, Saints fans won't forget, even if their talked-about protest never really materialised.

But there is a strong feeling that the executive chairman of Southampton, Nicola Cortese, has treated Adkins shabbily. Even non-Saints think it's all been a bit off.

"It's a PR disaster and just very very unsporting after all his good work"; "Complete lack of respect at Southampton, he did a good job with an average squad I really hope they go down now"; "Let's hope he gets what he's due and a whole load more after the way he was treated" and so on and so on went the tweets.

Well the man who found out he was out of a job by seeing it on television will have watched the squad he assembled do a pretty good job in a scoreless draw against Everton on Monday night.

Luckily for the new Argentinian boss, the players are just getting on with it.